I can’t believe it has been 2 years since I have posted my last blog.  Where does all the time go?  I just upgraded from WordPress 3.0 to 4.0.  I’m excited to see all the changes.  Now if I could just find a way to blow away all the registered spammers…

Okay, so I just earned a “popular question” badge for a question with over 1,000 views. Unfortunately, it was flagged with a negative and barely has any answers.

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Synergy is one of those lesser-known utilities that actually does a lot more for you than some of the more expensive paid apps you’d shell out triple-digits for.  Created by Nick Bolton, Chris Schoeneman, and Sorin Sbârnea, Synergy allows you to control multiple computers from just a single keyboard and mouse.  Gone are the days of using expensive, clunky KVM switches.  Now you can simply install Synergy, define a few parameters in a config file, run the client and server apps, and off you go!  What’s great about Synergy is, when compared to KVM switches, is that it runs through your existing network for sending control and display information.

You can configure each remotely-controlled computer to function as an extended desktop, so as you move your mouse off your primary desktop, it will suddenly appear on the other computer.  Synergy’s config file allows you to define where the remote computer is logically placed in this virtual desktop.  Imagine you have three computers.  You can, for example, have one client computer’s desktop appear to the left of your primary computer and another client appear on the right.  When you mouse off the left side of your primary computer, the mouse pointer will appear on the first client computer and likewise on the second client when mousing off the right side.  The computer that has the mouse pointer focus gains access to the keyboard.  Sometimes this requires a little bit more effort to take hold but, considering the app is free, this minor bug is hardly anything to complain about.

Synergy is cross-platform, available on Windows, Linux, and Mac.  It’s hard to believe you can download it for free on a donation basis, considering how having multiple computers at the control of one keyboard and mouse can tremendously add to one’s productivity.

Synergy’s website can be found here.

Technically speaking, Synergy more than doubles your pleasure.  It also allows you to double your productivity as well.  It all depends on how well you “werk” it.

Okay, so a Mac is a personal computer but you can’t call it a PC. A PC runs Windows but if you run Windows in VMware on a Mac the Mac is still not a PC either. What if your PC doesn’t run Windows but it runs Linux? Is it still “PC” to call it a PC? ahhh.

It is amazing how far cartoon animation has gotten these days.  However, I sometimes miss the classics.  When I was a kid I remember this oldie but goodie, never seeming to get the “plasma, dog plasma” comment out of my head.  Although I watched this in the mid 80s, it’s amazing to think this was actually created in 1955!  Check out the link below:

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So what’s an effective yet subtle way to see if someone likes you?   Try to add them on Facebook.  Try to add them on LinkedIn.  If they don’t answer within, say, six months or so, then get the hint.